7th GAPS Progress Meeting

4 Nov 2015, 13:00 → 6 Nov 2015, 14:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Ovest (Catania Astrophysical Observatory)

Antonino Francesco Lanza, Isabella Pagano

GAPS (Global Architecture of Planetary Systems) is a synergic research program dedicated to a better understanding of the census and architecture of planetary systems around different kinds of stars in the Galaxy and a study of the properties, including chemical composition, angular momentum, and magnetic activity, of the host stars. To reach these goals, GAPS makes use of HARPS-N, the high-resolution spectrograph installed in summer 2012 at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo that provides unrivalled precise radial velocity measurements, and of several other instruments, especially for follow-up observations. The 7th GAPS Progress Meeting is the second plenary meeting of the GAPS collaboration in 2015. It will be dedicated to the presentation and the discussion of the new results obtained by the collaboration and to the work in progress. GAPS coordinated program elements are dedicated to search for planets orbiting M dwarfs, metal-poor stars, and stars in open clusters; to a better understanding of the planetary content and architecture of already known planetary systems through long-term radial velocity monitoring and the measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect; to the study of the interactions between stars and their close-in planets, including effects on stellar activity and the evolution of angular momentum.

Wednesday, 4 November

13:00 → 14:00 Welcome Lunch

14:00 → 14:15 Accomodation in the hall and logistics (Chair: A.F. Lanza)

14:15 → 14:25 Welcome address by G. Umana, Director of INAF-Catania Observatory

14:25 → 15:05 Technical session

14:25 Instrument status

Speaker: Rosario Cosentino (INAF-FGG)

14:45 Status of GAPS observations

Speaker: Riccardo Claudi

15:05 → 15:25 Discussion (including possible questions on data archive and software tools)

15:25 → 15:45 Presentation of the new authorship policy

Speaker: Antonino francesco Lanza

15:45 → 16:00 Discussion on the policy

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Status of the program elements: (including reports on work and papers in progress)

16:30 Status of the Metal Poor Stars program

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

17:00 Status of the Open Cluster program and the first planetary system discovered by GAPS in an OC

Speaker: Luca Malavolta

Thursday, 5 November

09:00 → 10:45 Status of the program elements: (including reports on work and papers in progress)

09:00 status of the M-type star program

Speakers: Alessandro Sozzetti, Giuseppina Micela

09:15 GJ3998 - GAPS-M87: A super-earth around an M star

Speaker: Laura Affer

09:35 Rotation, magnetic activity, and flux-flux relationships in M-type stars

Speakers: Gaetano Scandariato, Jesus Maldonado prado

10:00 New masks for M stars

Speaker: Monica Rainer

10:15 M107 – a status report

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

10:30 Spectropolarimetry of M dwarfs to constrain RV jitter

Speaker: Dr Rim Fares (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 13:15 Status of the program elements

11:15 Status of the program on known planetary systems

Speaker: Silvano Desidera

11:35 The planetary system around HD 108874

Speaker: Serena Benatti

11:55 Structure and evolution of transiting giant planets: a Bayesian homogeneous determination of orbital and physical parameters

Speaker: Aldo stefano Bonomo

12:15 Status of abundance analysis of stars with transiting planets

Speaker: Katia Biazzo

12:35 The Yale Radial Velocity Challenge: results and application for testing tools to detect low-mass planets

Speaker: Mario Damasso

Slides gaps_nov15_Damasso%20[2437712].pdf

12:55 Status of the program on Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

Speaker: Elvira Covino

13:15 → 14:30 Launch

14:30 → 15:00 Status of the program elements

14:30 GAPS planets and further characterization

Speaker: Gaetano Scandariato

15:00 → 16:30 The new proposal to TNG TAC for AOT33/2016A (March 1 –August 31)

15:00 Presentation of the proposal

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

16:00 Discussion of the proposal

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:00 Status of the program elements

17:00 Star-planet interactions: lessons on chromospheric activity learned through the investigation of HD 17156

Speaker: Antonio Maggio

17:15 Status of the investigation on line asymmetry indicators in active stars

Speaker: Antonino francesco Lanza

17:30 Looking for reflected light in tau Bootis

Speaker: Francesco Borsa

17:45 “Altri mondi e dintorni …”: status of outreach and education

Speakers: Caterina Boccato, Sabrina Masiero

18:00 → 18:30 General discussion on GAPS program element

20:30 → 22:30 Social Dinner

Friday, 6 November

09:00 → 10:30 Synergies with other facilities and new proposals to exploit HARPS-N

09:00 Status of GIARPS, the GIANO+HARPS synergic program

Speaker: Riccardo Claudi

09:15 PMP update

Speaker: Isabella Pagano

09:20 Coordination of activities with amateur astronomers

Speaker: Sergio Messina

09:30 APACHE - status update, new tools, preliminary exoplanet frequency estimates

Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe

09:45 Status of the photometric follow-up at Serra La Nave

Speaker: Ricardo zanmar Sanchez castelan

10:00 The KOI-372 planetary system

Speaker: Luigi Mancini

10:15 Comparative study of algorithms for periodogram analysis of radial velocities

Speaker: Matteo Pinamonti

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 General discussion on the future development of GAPS, in the prospect of a new agreement between HARPS-N Consortium and INAF

12:30 → 13:00 Conclusions